On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:33:11 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 15/07/2016 08:41, Andrew Mawson wrote:
"GB" wrote in message ...

On 15/07/2016 07:20, harry wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/pva5NwCwwGk



Any idea how the cutting wires work?

Same method was used raising the Kursk (Russian nuclear sub that sank).
The steel wire has many bobbins of steel threaded onto it that have
carbide fused into the surface. The wire is used like a giant band saw,
the seawater acting as an effective coolant.


Andrew

Thanks. I don't think I'd want to be within a few hundred metres of that
arrangement!

How about this close?

http://dondougan.homestead.com/WireS...eyJunction.jpg

I think he has at least got his PPC waistcoat on. ;-)

Cheers, T i m